ahhhh, Poetry

Here is the first lesson in case any of you missed it or want to review it.

Ahhh, Poetry

S o u n d Is Everything

Alliteration

·  "The soul selects her own society."
(Emily Dickinson)
or

“Peter Piper picked…”

Assonance

"It beats as it sweeps as it cleans."
(Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners)

"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
(Thin Lizzy, "With Love")

Onomatopoeia

  "One of these days, Alice. Pow! Right in the kisser!"
(Jackie Gleason, The Honeymooners)

  "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."
(slogan of Alka Seltzer, U.S.)

Rhythm                      Rhyme

Meter

Enjambment

          Sonnets

Repetition

Syllable count

 Euphony          cacophony

Stressed and unstressed syllables

METAPHOR

Michael Stillman (b. 1940)

In Memorian, John Coltrane

Listen to the coal

rolling, rolling through the cold

Steady rain, wheel on

Wheel, listen to the

Turning of  the wheels this night

Black as coal dust, steel

On steel, listen to

These cars carry coal, listen

To the coal train roll.

Listening to a Voice

My Papa’s Waltz

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.